Exhibit Archive

"...every person should know some two or three landscapes in the smallest details. These specific landscapes are enough for thinking. Because a person cannot think without arranging some images on the forever reflected landscape in the brain. Besides, these lots of relief are also enough for combining dreams"

Anatolii Sumar is a mysterious and almost unknown artist of the Khrushchov era. No museum has his paintings. His art was exposed to people for the first time in 1990, after 27 years of silence and obliteration

Presentation of the project Places in the National Art Museum was planned in 2013 on the 21st of February, 2014. This was planned to be the Ukrainian part of a major initiative to support and promote Ukrainian visual arts. The museum was preparing to present to the public the results of work of the artists Alevtina Kakhidze, Stas Voliazlovskyi, and Zhanna Kadyrova, the laureates of Kazimir Malevich artistic award. But from January 19 the museum was closed because of the siege by military forces and the battle on Hrushevskogo street. The project was delayed.